Memory & Space Requirements

The latest versions of Understand takes about 600MB-1.1Gb of installation space, depending on the OS.

We recommend 1GB of RAM per Million lines of code, it will run on less, but it is much slower. The more memory the better.


Supported Operating Systems

  • Windows x64 (Windows 10.1809 and later), 
  • Linux 64bit (CentOS and RHEL 8.6 (4.18.0-372.26.1 or newer), Ubuntu 22.04, and later)
  • Mac OS (Monterey 12 and later) Intel and Apple Silicon are both supported


Use the older builds of Understand if you need a version to run on an older machine:


Build 1206 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 10.1809 and later ), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 8.4, Ubuntu 20.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Big Sur 11 and later ) Intel and Apple Silicon are both supported.


Build 1139 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 10 and later), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 8.4, Ubuntu 20.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Mohave and later ).


Build 1096 and older will run on Windows x64 ( Windows 7 and later, Windows Server 2016), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 7.6, Ubuntu 18.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( High Sierra and later ).


Build 1077 and older will run on Windows x64 and x86 ( Windows 7 and later ), Linux 64 bit ( CentOS & RHEL 7.4, Ubuntu 16.04, and later ) and Mac OS ( Sierra and later ).